News Roundup
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Some of the articles of interest to working mothers that we’ve seen around the web recently…
- PopSugar Moms takes a look at the new Target/Marimekko collaboration.
- Inc. offers several ways to improve your relationship with your boss.
- May no one need the 411 on getting fired, but if you do, Alison Green (of Ask a Manager) has you covered in U.S. News & World Report.
- A psychologist writes in The New York Times about family dinners.
- In The Washington Post, a social worker talks about discussing puberty with her daughters.
- Quartz looks at the types of praise and its effects on kids.
- The Washington Post reports on a woman being asked to leave a North Carolina courtroom because she was breastfeeding her baby (h/t to Above the Law).
- For your Laugh of the Week, The New Yorker cartoonist Emily Flake applies The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up to babies and their stuff.
- We talked about must-read business books for women and how much jewelry to wear to work.
- We took a look back into Corporette history.
- Kat shared a guide to suits.
Re Washington Post article about the woman breastfeeding in the courtroom – Is she a lawyer? Was she at counsel’s table breastfeeding while presenting her case or just sitting in the courtroom somewhere? I’m pro-breastfeeding and am impressed that North Carolina has a great law in place protecting mothers breastfeeding in public. I have no problem with anyone nursing in public or even in the courtroom generally. But I think common sense would tell you not to breastfeed during your actual court hearing before the judge, when you should be paying full attention to the case and judge. If the kid unpredictably needed to eat right.then. then why not ask for a short recess? The judge could have also handled it better by offering to take a recess or call her case out of line, which the article states is the court’s policy. But the fact that she has had to breastfeed her kid in court on more than one occasion makes me think that there is more to this story.